Verb Tenses & Irregular Verbs (Grade 3)

What This Section Is About:
This section helps students understand how verbs change to show past, present, and future actions. It also introduces irregular verbs, which do not follow the usual “-ed” rule for past tense.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this section, students should be able to:

Identify and use past, present, and future verb tenses correctly.

Recognize and use irregular verbs (e.g., go → went, eat → ate).

Change regular verbs to past tense by adding -ed.

Write sentences using the correct verb tense.

Examples:
1. Regular Verbs (Add -ed for past tense)
Present: I walk to school.

Past: I walked to school.

Future: I will walk to school.

2. Irregular Verbs (Do not follow -ed rule)
Present: She eats an apple.

Past: She ate an apple.

Future: She will eat an apple.

3. More Irregular Verbs:
go → went → will go

see → saw → will see

run → ran → will run

Fun Practice Activities
1. Worksheet Activity
2. Test Yourself: Interactive Practice Quiz

Offline Homework:
Fill in the Blanks: Choose the correct verb tense.

Yesterday, I (jump/jumped) on the bed.

Tomorrow, we (will go/went) to the park.

Irregular Verb Match: Draw a line to match present and past tense.

eat → drank

drink → ate (Correct: eat → ate, drink → drank)

Write Sentences: Use the correct tense of the verb in brackets.

(run) Present: The dog ___ fast.

(run) Past: The dog ___ fast yesterday.

Challenge: Find 3 irregular verbs in a book and write them in past tense.